Senior Client Associate, Payments and Cash Management - Langley, BC

Requisition ID: 214627

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Senior Client Associate contributes to the overall success of Commercial Banking, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team's business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities are conducted in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

The Senior Client Associate provides support needed to meet cash management fulfillment requirements for new clients, and to resolve service issues for existing clients in a highly efficient and client-centric manner. This will include coordinating with internal partners and directly reaching out to clients to address product fulfillment needs, as well as various activities such as resolution of escalated client challenges, identifying prospects, and opportunities for growing existing client relationships. The role is focused on servicing both the Midmarket & National Accounts Segment and complex customer accounts in Commercial Banking.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• This role is responsible for providing the following sales and service support to a portfolio of existing and prospective clients:
  • Product Expertise & Proposal Execution:
  • Provide coverage team support with proposals, client briefs, SalesForce and C360 information to inform presentations.
  • Assist with the preparation of client and partner presentations and proposals in conjunction with Product owners and Proposal Writing Team to meet time-sensitive client needs.
  • Work with Product owners to identify potential product enhancements and provide feedback through the appropriate communication chains, drawing on experience.
  • Fulfillment: Coordinating efforts with the client and various internal partners, including the RBBO and Global Transaction Banking (GTB) , to ensure cash management and related services and products are fulfilled as per customer expectations by providing consistent accuracy on information and instructions provided to Customer Sales Support and the BSC.
  • Client Coverage: Resolve service and related issues for our complex, high-valued clients for cash management, payments, deposit products, reporting and digital banking platform.
  • Treasury Reviews: Prepare and consolidate the required information collected from various sources to enable the completion of thorough treasury reviews for priority clients on an annual basis. Perform gap analysis, identify inefficiencies, explore ways to streamline services and review pricing for market and industry alignment. Make targeted recommendations to PCM to enhance and expand and/or deepen the relationship. Ensure fees, pricing and deemed risk limit changes are correctly processed and systems as applicable are appropriately updated.
• Manage various fulfillment and technical service requests and ensure bottlenecks or delays are promptly escalated with a plan to resolve.
• Use of data and analytics to identify opportunities to enhance client services and solutions and cross-sell, sharing recommendations with Associate Director, PCM. Focus includes growing deposits and cross sell for existing single-service clients.
• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank's Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champion a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive environment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? - We'd love to work with you if you have:

• University or College business degree, equivalent work experience or operational experience
• Strong commitment to excellent client service and ability to work with clients to resolve issues in an amicable and prompt manner
• Strong organizational skills to co-ordinate and prioritize a number of concurrent requests
• Strong written and verbal skills with proven ability to engage stakeholders and clients
• Good knowledge of fulfilment processes and roles of partners
• Good knowledge of Commercial Banking partners and their involvement in servicing clients. In particular, knowledge of the Retail Business Banking Operations and Global Business Payments fulfillment is important
• Thorough knowledge of the applicable software and technology platforms for Commercial Banking (e.g., Sales Force, Intralink, Outlook, Excel)
• A high degree of flexibility to adapt to a wide variety of tasks
• Strong commitment to accuracy, customer focus and results focus
• Due to the nature of the role and business needs there is a requirement for an in-office presence

What we're offering…

• The opportunity to join a forward-thinking organization surrounded by a collaborative team of innovative thinkers
• A rewarding career path with diverse opportunities for professional development
• A competitive compensation and benefits package
• Internal training to support your career growth and enhance your skills
• An organization committed to making a difference in our communities - for you and our customers

Location(s): Canada : British Columbia : Langley

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.